"In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. Show me someone who says, "Something must be done!" and I will show you a head full of vicious intentions that have no other outlet. What we must strive for always! is to find the natural flow and go with it."
~The Reverend Mother Taraza, Conversational Record, BG File GSXXMAAT9 (Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune)
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. ~Ronald Reagan #FavoriteQuotes
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God. - Robert Browning #FavoriteQuotes
“Usually we praise only to be praised.” ―François, duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, Maxim 146 #FavoriteQuotes